Blast Off! Launching The #GlobalPOV Project Vid Series

Prof. Roy yacked on and on about Bono. Abby did some doodling. Tara shoved a camera in everyone’s face. This vid resulted. Take a behind-the-scenes look into the making of The #GlobalPOV Project’s “Who Sees Poverty?” pilot video.

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The #GlobalPOV Project is a program of the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor. Based at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley, the GPP Minor creates new ways of thinking about poverty and inequality and undertaking poverty action.

Join the #GlobalPOV conversation on Twitter. Like us on Facebook. Visit our website. Take some action already— but only after critically evaluating the long-term costs and implications of such action, of course.

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Host Organizations

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Student Fellows

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